'The working class and peoples of Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere will not be the winners of this war', Carol Stavris told the Communist Party's executive committee at the weekend. The CP women's organiser highlighted the huge and lasting impact of the Russian offensive on hundreds of thousands of women and children fleeing Ukraine.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
British communists say "No to Putin's war, no to NATO"!
'The working class and peoples of Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere will not be the winners of this war', Carol Stavris told the Communist Party's executive committee at the weekend. The CP women's organiser highlighted the huge and lasting impact of the Russian offensive on hundreds of thousands of women and children fleeing Ukraine.
D. Koutsoumbas: "The people of Ukraine have become a punching bag among ruthless imperialists"
Now they are being told that they must pay the price of Greece’s participation in imperialist war. To pay ‘the price of participation in the war for freedom’, as the Prime Minister, K. Mitsotakis, said.
Putin is one of yours, western hypocrites!
All those who today denounce Putin's “authoritarianism”, in order to cover up their crimes against the people, are the same ones who were celebrating when a “liberal” and “democrat” was taking over as Russia's Prime Minister back in August 1999, at the behest of the then President Yeltsin who played a key role in the dissolution of the former USSR in line with US-NATO imperialism.
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Austria: Marxist-Leninist youth front was formed
Ukraine: Communist Youth Union members beaten badly, remain detained in Kiev
More specifically, a recent post by the WFDY reads:
"Finally, after 6 days without any news, we have received an update on the situation of comrades Kononovich.
-They are arrested in a pre-trial detention centre in Kiev.
Friday, March 11, 2022
Russian communist lawmakers condemn Ukraine war
Oleg Smolin, Mikhail Matveyev, Vyacheslav Markhaev |
Thursday, March 10, 2022
The stance of the communists towards the imperialist war in Ukraine
The inter-imperialist confrontation between the Euro-Atlantic powers (USA, NATO, EU) and Russia in Ukraine inevitably brings to the fore serious ideological-political disagreements and chronic contradictions that exist in the international communist movement.
The Russian invasion and the war in Ukraine emphatically highlights the misconception that exists in part of the communist movement concerning the issue of imperialism. A number of self-proclaimed “communist” forces are either unable, or deliberately avoid, to conceive imperialism through Leninist criteria. Instead, they disconnect economy from politics, overlook the fact that the competition between the monopolies is the basis for the sharpening of international conflicts and focus unilaterally on the aggressive foreign policy of specific states and alliances (e.g. USA, NATO, EU).
KKE in EU Parliament: Urgent question about the arrest of Kononovich brothers in Ukraine
More specifically the urgent question submitted by the KKE MEP Kostas Papadakis reads:
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Women's Day 2022: Statement by the World Federation of Trade Unions
8 March 1857 – 8 March 2022: 165 years later
165 years ago, when the women workers in the New York textile mills, on March 8, 1857, went on strike and demonstrated for “ten-hour work, bright and sanitary workrooms, wages equal to those of male textile workers and tailors”, they certainly did not imagine that in 2022 all these demands would still be demanded.
Monday, March 7, 2022
War and the dirty role of social democracy
From left to right: Olaf Scholz, Alexis Tsipras, Pedro Sanchez. |
“If you had picked up the phone to call the party leaders, I might have told you my opinion, but not now after the fact, like the other political leaders. I would tell you that it would be better to send humanitarian aid, it would be better to send non-lethal equipment, like Spain and Italy did”.
Alert: Ukrainian authorities arrested Communist Youth leader and his brother
"The First Secretary of our Ukrainian member organisation, the Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine, Mikhail Kononovich, and his brother, Aleksander Kononovich, have been arrested by the Ukrainian neo-fascist regime during the last hours.
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Cuba to host the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties in 2022
According to 902 portal, the decision was taken in yesterday's session of the Working Group of IMCWP in Lisbon, under the participation of 25 Communist and Workers Parties,
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Statement by the Cuban Government on Ukraine war
"The U.S. determination to continue NATO’s progressive expansion toward the Russian Federation’s borders has brought about a scenario with implications of unpredictable scope, which could have been avoided.
Friday, March 4, 2022
European Communist Initiative on Ukraine war
"Three decades after the dissolution of the USSR and the imperialist war in Yugoslavia, a new war broke out on European territory. The unacceptable Russian military intervention and invasion of Ukraine has been prepared all the previous years through the USA, NATO, and EU intervention, their support for the reactionary government of Kyiv, the paramilitary mechanisms andfascist groups in Ukraine as well as the plan for the economic, political, and military encirclement of Russia.
Thursday, March 3, 2022
KKE condemns blocking of "Russia Today" and "Sputnik" transmission in Greece
More analytically the KKE statement (here in Greek) reads:
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
KKE leader Koutsoumbas blasts PM Mitsotakis on Greece's involvement in Ukraine war
In his speech, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, GS of the CC of the KKE, stressed, among other things, the following:
South African Communist Party condemns racism and discrimination against Africans in Ukraine
KKE MEPs reject EU Parliament's resolution on Ukraine
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Dimitris Koutsoumbas: No to imperialist war! Greece’s involvement must stop immediately!
The event took place in Lamia, the native city of Aris Velouchiotis, leader of ELAS and cadre of the KKE.
Monday, February 28, 2022
Communists of Sweden and Finland: "We do not choose between imperialists; we choose socialism!"
"We do not choose between imperialists; we choose socialism!
"The undersigned communist parties in Sweden and Finland state, in the face of mounting contradictions in the region in and around the Ukraine, that we refuse to choose between the rival imperialist powers.
Sunday, February 27, 2022
KKE blasts Greece's military aid to Ukraine
In a statement about Greek Government's decision to send military aid to Ukraine, the Press Office of the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) points out:
“By sending military equipment to Ukraine in the framework of NATO's directions, the Government of ND upgrades the country's involvement in an imperialist war that is unfolding with unpredictable dimensions and great dangers for the people.
Russian Communist Workers' Party on Ukraine war
“Neither the Russian authorities nor the US and EU leaders pay much attention to the working people. We have no doubt that the real aims of the Russian state in this war are imperialistic”, the statement of the RCWP states. The Party acknowledges that “the source of the conflict is the inter-imperialist contradictions between the US, the EU and Russia”, adding that “the goal of the more powerful US imperialism is to weaken its Russian competitor and expand its infuence in the European market”.
Joint statement by KKE and TKP for the 70 years since the accession of Greece and Turkey to NATO
"Seven decades ago, Greece and Turkey joined the imperialist organization NATO, established by the United States and its Western European allies.
Saturday, February 26, 2022
PCTE: No to imperialist war! No a la guerra imperialista
Statement of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE): NO TO IMPERIALIST WAR!
The conflict between imperialist powers and blocs has entered a new stage with the start of direct military actions by the Russian Federation against military targets on Ukrainian territory. In these difficult times, when there is a serious risk of the outbreak of a widespread imperialist war, the Political Bureau of the PCTE sends the following reflections to workers and to the ensemble of our people: